About Patrick Losey
NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 19, 2017
Funny, isn’t it—the blokes who do all the squawking and yammering are never the ones who do any of the fighting. “This is War!” episode “To the Young” broadcast May 2, 1942 on CBS, NBC Red, NBC ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 12, 2017
The nations have heard of the fission of the atom and have seen the photographs: skies aboil with interlocking fury, mushrooms of uranium smoke ascending to where angels patrol uneasily. “Set Y ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 5, 2017
The imagination needs regular exercise in this prosaic world of stock market reports, body counts, traffic bulletins, tax laws, yellow pages and questionnaires. If the arts don’t give us fantasy, the ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 29, 2017
The difference between wearing a sandwich board and carrying and artifact on which GUCCI is prominently displayed is one only of degree. Yet so strong is the snob appeal of the chic label to consumers ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 22, 2017
Just give this Man a problem of some surplus livestock on the one hand and some hungry men who cannot buy that livestock on the other and he’ll fume and fret and make up laws and regulations and then ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 15, 2017
I am dead of the mistakes of old men, And I lie fermenting in the wisdom of the earth “Untitled” radio play (published version) from the book “Untitled and Other Radio Dramas” (1947) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 8, 2017
All is accounted for Except the farmer’s boy, And the mill hand who lived near the canal, And the young men from the city block where gutters fry in the summer. One lies with an ocean across his che ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 1, 2017
May tribes of trees descend with your children to a time when the shade of the oak spreads wider than the shadow of war. “Fifty Years After 14 August” broadcast August 1995 on NPR ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 25, 2016
We’ve lost prestige, and I greatly deplore That we stand to in danger of losing more In the way of confidence and spirit. We’re far from our goal—we’re in no way near it! And this is the reason: thoug ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 18, 2016
Work and love both have the power to fetter or to liberate, to injure or to heal, to wither or fructify. Both can decay into baleful obligation; both can be sparkling or dull, fascinating or burdensom ...
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